mechanic. He rescued many old aircraft and vehicles. He died in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but his mother Dorothy Shuttleworth continued to develop the collection. All the aircraft are kept [...] aircraft through the first half of the 20th century. The museum’s Blériot XI biplane from 1909 is the world's oldest aeroplane that still flies. Among other aircraft are an Avro 504K from 1918 and a 1941 Spitfire

and a rare Portuguese Alba of 1952. Working vehicles include a fire-engine of 1913 and a Second World War Autocar M3 Half Track. After João died in an accident at only 36, a foundation was established to

The islands of Malta and Gozo suffered badly from a long siege during the Second World War. As part of Cold War defences, the British Government built seven underground corn mills on the islands in 1955

de south of Berlin was the home of the Daimler-Benz aircraft engine factory. During the Second World War, the plant made engines for Luftwaffe aircraft using forced labour. The plant was bombed and after

the neoclassical architect Denis Antoine on the Quai de Conti. It is part of the Banks of the Seine World Heritage site. The 177-metre building that faces the quay contained the offices, while courtyards [...] still made. A museum explains the process of making coins and medals and their significance. Around 2,000 pieces are on show from collections of 170,000 objects. Beautifully designed exhibitions give visitors

factory manufactured the brass cases and filled them with the gunpowder propellant. Production during World War Two rose to 97 million cartridges a year. Afterwards, the factory diversified into metal components

is situated in the same building with the Maritime Museum of Finland . After World War II Kymenlaakso was among the world’s leading paper producers. Nowadays South-Eastern Finland has one of the biggest

were established. The factory building was expanded in several stages over the decades. During World War II, the factory's production was reserved for the Finnish Defense Forces.In the 1970s Friitala expanded [...] Scandinavia. Quality leather outfits became Friitala’s trademark, and the products were sold all over the world. Friitala also produced leather for the Finnish shoe, bag, and furniture industry. At the beginning

airships by the German navy at Nordholz in 1912. It was used heavily by aircraft during the Second World War. The start of a collection of historical objects began here in 1967 but the initiative to create [...] Exhibitions continue indoors with five main themes: the technology and history of airships, airships at war, civil airships, the history of the base at Nordholz and finally naval aviation.

Saint-Martin-d'Aubigny. Due to competition from other building materials and the start of the Second World War, the brickworks closed in 1939. It was saved from demolition and conservation began for it to open [...] sheds and the large circular kiln inside a cover building with a tall chimney. A brickworks was opened 2km away at Périers in 1872. When the clay there ran out, the processes were gradually relocated between

the largest Citroën collection in the world. It extends from the Type ‘A’s after the First World War to recent vehicles and includes many examples of the influential 2CV and DS ranges. The cars are arranged

one of the oldest oil regions in the world. Oil, and later gas, was first extracted here in the 19th century. However, it was not until after the Second World War that the oil industry really took off

Another display shows the development of the Spitfire fighter plane in Birmingham during the Second World War. There is also an outdoor ‘science garden’ and a planetarium. [...] and examines environmental issues. One reason for the city’s reputation as the ‘workshop of the world’ was the innovative Boulton and Watt engineering company. The museum features many items made by Boulton [...] and Watt, including the Smethwick pumping engine of 1779 - the oldest working steam engine in the world. Key objects include other stationary steam engines, William Murdock’s model for his steam carriage

production in Finland. The extraction and use of peat for energy production began in Aitoneva during World War II. Finland was lacking sources of energy due to the difficulties in coal import. Aitoneva was selected

and the oil was pumped out. The city experienced a rapid boom, which continued until the First World War, when the production facilities were severely damaged. Oil is still being produced in the city today [...] century, the Carpathian foothills of Galicia developed into the third largest petroleum region in the world. Several centuries earlier, manually dug pits had already been laid out to collect the seeping so-called

The Valentin memorial preserves the remains of a concrete bunker from the Second World War for building submarines on the river Weser near Bremen. In just twenty months – from summer 1943 to spring 1945 [...] Atlantic convoys. Up to 10,000 civilian forced labourers worked on the construction. Approximately 2,000 died as a result of the physically strenuous work, inadequate care and inhumane living conditions

g machinery, numerous photographs, historical drawings as well as technical plans are presented on 2,500 square metres. Mementos and recorded memories of the former metalworkers tell of their hard work [...] from it. An 8-minute film presents the history and the role of iron and steel in building today's world.

people and material between the two locations. In the First World War, the tunnel was used for ammunition production, and in the Second World War, the employees found shelter during air raids. The AEG site

grandson of the company founder, Joseph Opinel, assembled the Opinel pocket knife. During the First World War the production moved to a former tannery in Cognin near Chambéry, followed by the relocation to

and vegetables were cultivated, and the town became known as the ‘flower city’. During the Second World War there was a forced labour camp in the area whose inmates were forced to labour in the peat workings